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Ethena
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www.ethena.fiNumber of employees
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Ethena provides derivative infrastructure in order to transform Ethereum into the first crypto-native yield bearing synthetic dollar which is not reliant on the banking system: USDe
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Ethena
Senior Backend Engineer
Parque Industrial Global Park Querétaro, Mexico
Parque Industrial Global Park Querétaro, Mexico
Full time
Remote
~~Ethena Labs is a pioneering force in the DeFi space, dedicated to developing cutting-edge financial products. We are focused on creating solutions for the modern finance landscape, aimed at bridging the gap between traditional finance and the digital asset economy. Our mission centers around offering globally accessible, crypto-native financial products, promoting transparency, efficiency, and financial empowerment for both individuals and institutions.
At Ethena Labs, we are actively engaged in the development and deployment of innovative products to tackle key challenges and capitalize on new opportunities within the digital finance ecosystem.
Our primary product, USDe, is a synthetic dollar backed by digital assets, uniquely maintained through a delta-neutral hedging strategy for scalability and censorship resistance. In addition to USDe, we offer sUSDe, a rewarding crypto-native savings asset derived from funding rates in derivatives markets.
Continuing our drive towards institutional adoption of digital assets, our USDtb stablecoin, developed in collaboration with Securitize and Blackrocks BUIDL fund, offers an asset-backed stablecoin option leveraging traditional financial infrastructure. Furthermore, iUSDe caters to traditional financial institutions, providing compliance features to enable them to access our protocol's rewards in an institutional-friendly manner.
Our ambitious flagship project, Converge, a collaborative initiative with Securitize, aims to establish a hybrid blockchain platform that harmonizes DeFi with the requirements of CeFi and TradFi, serving as a foundational layer for tokenized assets and facilitating institutional participation in the decentralized economy.
By offering these innovative financial solutions, Ethena Labs is not just designing new products but building the critical infrastructure for a more interconnected, efficient, and open global financial system.
Join us in a Senior Engineer role, contributing to the design, development, and scalability of our core products and engineering systems, with a focus on enhancing backend architecture and integrations for a large user base. You will be accountable for improving the reliability, performance, and maintainability of our services across multiple systems, including APIs, security features, websites, and databases. Your efforts in automation and operational resilience will drive achievement of objectives, reduce bottlenecks, and allow leadership to focus on strategic initiatives and product exploration.
Key Responsibilities:
Enhancing backend infrastructure by optimizing existing Python systems for scalability.
Developing secure, well-documented APIs for core functions such as asset minting/redeeming.
Managing new integration requests, streamlining processes through automation.
Improving system reliability and security with automated failover and robust error handling.
Collaborating with the product engineering team to deliver features efficiently.
Mentoring engineers on backend best practices and scalable architecture.
Establishing modern development processes, including CI/CD pipelines and automated testing for engineering excellence and automation.
Conducting system audits and post-mortems to future-proof the platform against escalating user and transaction demands.
Requirements:
Proficiency in backend development, specifically in Python for scalable API and integration development.
Experience with security-focused API development and database design optimization in high-performance environments.
Familiarity with DevOps practices and infrastructure tools like AWS/GCP, Docker/Kubernetes, and CI/CD.
Ability to scale systems efficiently to handle increasing loads with a focus on latency reduction and resource optimization.
Strong problem-solving skills, adaptability to fast-paced environments, and data-driven decision-making.
Excellent collaboration and mentorship abilities.
Willingness to rapidly acquire an understanding of crypto-native concepts if not already versed in them.
Join Ethena Labs for a challenging opportunity at the forefront of decentralized finance, working in a collaborative and innovative environment that supports growth and learning in a flexible remote-friendly setting. If you share our commitment to revolutionizing decentralized finance, we invite you to apply and join us in reshaping the future of global finance.**
At Ethena Labs, we are actively engaged in the development and deployment of innovative products to tackle key challenges and capitalize on new opportunities within the digital finance ecosystem.
Our primary product, USDe, is a synthetic dollar backed by digital assets, uniquely maintained through a delta-neutral hedging strategy for scalability and censorship resistance. In addition to USDe, we offer sUSDe, a rewarding crypto-native savings asset derived from funding rates in derivatives markets.
Continuing our drive towards institutional adoption of digital assets, our USDtb stablecoin, developed in collaboration with Securitize and Blackrocks BUIDL fund, offers an asset-backed stablecoin option leveraging traditional financial infrastructure. Furthermore, iUSDe caters to traditional financial institutions, providing compliance features to enable them to access our protocol's rewards in an institutional-friendly manner.
Our ambitious flagship project, Converge, a collaborative initiative with Securitize, aims to establish a hybrid blockchain platform that harmonizes DeFi with the requirements of CeFi and TradFi, serving as a foundational layer for tokenized assets and facilitating institutional participation in the decentralized economy.
By offering these innovative financial solutions, Ethena Labs is not just designing new products but building the critical infrastructure for a more interconnected, efficient, and open global financial system.
Join us in a Senior Engineer role, contributing to the design, development, and scalability of our core products and engineering systems, with a focus on enhancing backend architecture and integrations for a large user base. You will be accountable for improving the reliability, performance, and maintainability of our services across multiple systems, including APIs, security features, websites, and databases. Your efforts in automation and operational resilience will drive achievement of objectives, reduce bottlenecks, and allow leadership to focus on strategic initiatives and product exploration.
Key Responsibilities:
Enhancing backend infrastructure by optimizing existing Python systems for scalability.
Developing secure, well-documented APIs for core functions such as asset minting/redeeming.
Managing new integration requests, streamlining processes through automation.
Improving system reliability and security with automated failover and robust error handling.
Collaborating with the product engineering team to deliver features efficiently.
Mentoring engineers on backend best practices and scalable architecture.
Establishing modern development processes, including CI/CD pipelines and automated testing for engineering excellence and automation.
Conducting system audits and post-mortems to future-proof the platform against escalating user and transaction demands.
Requirements:
Proficiency in backend development, specifically in Python for scalable API and integration development.
Experience with security-focused API development and database design optimization in high-performance environments.
Familiarity with DevOps practices and infrastructure tools like AWS/GCP, Docker/Kubernetes, and CI/CD.
Ability to scale systems efficiently to handle increasing loads with a focus on latency reduction and resource optimization.
Strong problem-solving skills, adaptability to fast-paced environments, and data-driven decision-making.
Excellent collaboration and mentorship abilities.
Willingness to rapidly acquire an understanding of crypto-native concepts if not already versed in them.
Join Ethena Labs for a challenging opportunity at the forefront of decentralized finance, working in a collaborative and innovative environment that supports growth and learning in a flexible remote-friendly setting. If you share our commitment to revolutionizing decentralized finance, we invite you to apply and join us in reshaping the future of global finance.**
Ethena
Financial Crime Manager
Parque Industrial Global Park Querétaro, Mexico
Parque Industrial Global Park Querétaro, Mexico
Full time
Remote
+1
Who We Are:
Ethena Labs is a leading player in the DeFi space, crafting innovative financial products tailored for modern finance. Ethena specializes in a synthetic dollar protocol known as USDe, which offers a crypto-centric monetary solution, and sUSDe, an internationally accessible savings asset denominated in dollars.
Our main objective is to furnish truly crypto-native financial remedies that transcend global boundaries, effectively bridging the gap between the traditional financial system and the digital asset sector. We prioritize principles of transparency, efficiency, and empowerment, granting individuals and institutions greater authority over their financial holdings.
What we are Doing:
At Ethena Labs, we are actively conceptualizing and implementing a range of pioneering products designed to tackle fundamental hurdles and unlock fresh possibilities in the thriving digital finance realm.
Our flagship product, USDe, represents a synthetic dollar collateralized by digital assets, employing a unique delta-neutral hedging strategy to preserve its peg. This novel approach ensures a highly scalable and censorship-resistant digital dollar.
In continuation with USDe, we introduce sUSDe, a product that offers crypto-native rewards derived from derivative market funding rates, presenting an innovative alternative to existing products heavily reliant on traditional financial infrastructure.
Moreover, we are earnestly developing solutions to encourage the adoption of digital assets by institutional entities. In collaboration with Securitize and Blackrocks BUIDL fund, USDtb presents a more conventional, asset-backed stablecoin choice, leveraging established financial frameworks to cater to institutional clients. In tandem, iUSDe is specially tailored for traditional financial institutions, integrating essential compliance features to facilitate their access to the crypto-native rewards generated by our protocol in a manner conducive to institutional preferences.
Our most ambitious endeavor thus far is Converge, a collaborative blockchain initiative with Securitize. This hybrid blockchain architecture aims to serve as the epicenter where DeFi intersects with the requirements of CeFi and TradFi. Converge is poised to become the primary issuance layer for tokenized assets, seamlessly intertwining with existing DeFi protocols to furnish institutions with a platform to partake in the decentralized financial landscape.
Through our diverse product offerings, Ethena Labs is not only reshaping the financial product landscape but also setting the groundwork for a more open, streamlined, and interlinked global financial ecosystem.
Location: Europe
The Role
The FinCrime Manager at Ethena plays a pivotal role within the compliance team, directly reporting to the Head of Compliance and maintaining close coordination with Operations, Legal, and Product sectors. This position holds substantial responsibility in reinforcing Ethena's financial crime defenses across the core suite of products and forthcoming initiatives. As the FinCrime Manager, you will oversee investigations, sanctions assessments, and enhanced due diligence, steering the formulation of policies, playbooks, and monitoring systems essential for the scalable expansion of our operations.
This role necessitates a hands-on leadership approach: the FinCrime Manager will spearhead investigations and EDD processes daily, guide junior analysts, and act as the primary contact point for partners, auditors, and regulators concerning financial crime-related issues. The ideal candidate will be process-driven and detail-oriented yet adaptable – capable of harmonizing the pragmatic demands of a rapid crypto-native enterprise with the requisite diligence to meet regulatory standards on a global scale.
What You’ll Do
Spearhead Ethena’s financial crime operations, overseeing investigations, sanctions reviews, and high-risk case escalations across various product lines, including USDe, sUSDe, USDtb, secondary markets, and upcoming offerings.
Devise and implement enhanced due diligence protocols for institutional and B2B2C collaborations.
Develop and refine frameworks for sanctions monitoring and blacklist processes to ensure consistent and effective implementation of in-house case management and auto-blacklisting mechanisms.
Manage day-to-day investigative and monitoring tasks, establishing clear turnaround time expectations, ensuring workflow proficiency, and guaranteeing the proper handling of each case.
Establish policies and procedures for financial crime controls covering aspects such as transaction monitoring, sanctions compliance, EDD procedures, and investigations. Keep these policies updated in alignment with evolving regulatory frameworks spanning MiCA, BVI, Cayman, and other jurisdictions, and translate them into practical guidelines for the team.
Collaborate closely with Product, Legal, and Operations teams to embed financial crime controls into the fabric of Ethena's product development and launch processes.
Act as the central liaison for interactions with law enforcement agencies, regulators, and auditors regarding financial crime concerns.
Train and mentor teams across the organization, from compliance and operations staff to product managers, on recognizing financial crime risks in practice, assessing sanctions exposure in a crypto context, and fostering good monitoring practices daily.
What We’re Looking For
Demonstrated expertise in conducting financial crime investigations, with a successful track record in managing intricate crypto-related cases such as mixers, cross-chain flows, and sanctions evasion.
Proficient in utilizing blockchain analytics platforms (TRM, Chainalysis, Elliptic) and onboarding solutions (Sumsub or similar tools).
Sound comprehension of AML/CFT, KYC/KYB, and sanctions regulations, supported by a proven ability to apply these regulations within a multi-jurisdictional framework spanning EU MiCA, BVI AML, Cayman foundation, U.S. MSB, and beyond.
Experience in devising and leading EDD programs for diverse counterparties, including DAOs, offshore funds, and institutional limited partners.
Familiarity with establishing and managing AML/CFT and financial crime programs, encompassing the drafting and upkeep of policies, procedures, and playbooks.
Exposure to practices concerning audit readiness and assurance, involving tasks such as preparing for external AML/FinCrime audits and addressing control deficiencies to enhance operational robustness.
Technologically savvy individual capable of navigating Ethena's product ecosystem encompassing mint/redeem mechanisms, staking functionalities, off-exchange settlements, and adept at integrating compliance tools into operational workflows.
This role offers a salary range of $89,998 to $120,000 annually.
Why Ethena Labs?
Join the dynamic realm of Ethena Labs, a forward-thinking organization dedicated to revolutionizing decentralized finance.
Collaborate with a driven and innovative team that fosters a conducive environment for creativity and teamwork.
Experience a flexible work environment supporting remote work arrangements, with ample opportunities for professional development and learning.
If you share our vision of decoupling the dollar from governmental influence, we are eager to learn more about you!
We await your application and will be in touch following a thorough review.
In the meantime, feel free to explore more about Ethena Labs on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Ethena Labs is a leading player in the DeFi space, crafting innovative financial products tailored for modern finance. Ethena specializes in a synthetic dollar protocol known as USDe, which offers a crypto-centric monetary solution, and sUSDe, an internationally accessible savings asset denominated in dollars.
Our main objective is to furnish truly crypto-native financial remedies that transcend global boundaries, effectively bridging the gap between the traditional financial system and the digital asset sector. We prioritize principles of transparency, efficiency, and empowerment, granting individuals and institutions greater authority over their financial holdings.
What we are Doing:
At Ethena Labs, we are actively conceptualizing and implementing a range of pioneering products designed to tackle fundamental hurdles and unlock fresh possibilities in the thriving digital finance realm.
Our flagship product, USDe, represents a synthetic dollar collateralized by digital assets, employing a unique delta-neutral hedging strategy to preserve its peg. This novel approach ensures a highly scalable and censorship-resistant digital dollar.
In continuation with USDe, we introduce sUSDe, a product that offers crypto-native rewards derived from derivative market funding rates, presenting an innovative alternative to existing products heavily reliant on traditional financial infrastructure.
Moreover, we are earnestly developing solutions to encourage the adoption of digital assets by institutional entities. In collaboration with Securitize and Blackrocks BUIDL fund, USDtb presents a more conventional, asset-backed stablecoin choice, leveraging established financial frameworks to cater to institutional clients. In tandem, iUSDe is specially tailored for traditional financial institutions, integrating essential compliance features to facilitate their access to the crypto-native rewards generated by our protocol in a manner conducive to institutional preferences.
Our most ambitious endeavor thus far is Converge, a collaborative blockchain initiative with Securitize. This hybrid blockchain architecture aims to serve as the epicenter where DeFi intersects with the requirements of CeFi and TradFi. Converge is poised to become the primary issuance layer for tokenized assets, seamlessly intertwining with existing DeFi protocols to furnish institutions with a platform to partake in the decentralized financial landscape.
Through our diverse product offerings, Ethena Labs is not only reshaping the financial product landscape but also setting the groundwork for a more open, streamlined, and interlinked global financial ecosystem.
Location: Europe
The Role
The FinCrime Manager at Ethena plays a pivotal role within the compliance team, directly reporting to the Head of Compliance and maintaining close coordination with Operations, Legal, and Product sectors. This position holds substantial responsibility in reinforcing Ethena's financial crime defenses across the core suite of products and forthcoming initiatives. As the FinCrime Manager, you will oversee investigations, sanctions assessments, and enhanced due diligence, steering the formulation of policies, playbooks, and monitoring systems essential for the scalable expansion of our operations.
This role necessitates a hands-on leadership approach: the FinCrime Manager will spearhead investigations and EDD processes daily, guide junior analysts, and act as the primary contact point for partners, auditors, and regulators concerning financial crime-related issues. The ideal candidate will be process-driven and detail-oriented yet adaptable – capable of harmonizing the pragmatic demands of a rapid crypto-native enterprise with the requisite diligence to meet regulatory standards on a global scale.
What You’ll Do
Spearhead Ethena’s financial crime operations, overseeing investigations, sanctions reviews, and high-risk case escalations across various product lines, including USDe, sUSDe, USDtb, secondary markets, and upcoming offerings.
Devise and implement enhanced due diligence protocols for institutional and B2B2C collaborations.
Develop and refine frameworks for sanctions monitoring and blacklist processes to ensure consistent and effective implementation of in-house case management and auto-blacklisting mechanisms.
Manage day-to-day investigative and monitoring tasks, establishing clear turnaround time expectations, ensuring workflow proficiency, and guaranteeing the proper handling of each case.
Establish policies and procedures for financial crime controls covering aspects such as transaction monitoring, sanctions compliance, EDD procedures, and investigations. Keep these policies updated in alignment with evolving regulatory frameworks spanning MiCA, BVI, Cayman, and other jurisdictions, and translate them into practical guidelines for the team.
Collaborate closely with Product, Legal, and Operations teams to embed financial crime controls into the fabric of Ethena's product development and launch processes.
Act as the central liaison for interactions with law enforcement agencies, regulators, and auditors regarding financial crime concerns.
Train and mentor teams across the organization, from compliance and operations staff to product managers, on recognizing financial crime risks in practice, assessing sanctions exposure in a crypto context, and fostering good monitoring practices daily.
What We’re Looking For
Demonstrated expertise in conducting financial crime investigations, with a successful track record in managing intricate crypto-related cases such as mixers, cross-chain flows, and sanctions evasion.
Proficient in utilizing blockchain analytics platforms (TRM, Chainalysis, Elliptic) and onboarding solutions (Sumsub or similar tools).
Sound comprehension of AML/CFT, KYC/KYB, and sanctions regulations, supported by a proven ability to apply these regulations within a multi-jurisdictional framework spanning EU MiCA, BVI AML, Cayman foundation, U.S. MSB, and beyond.
Experience in devising and leading EDD programs for diverse counterparties, including DAOs, offshore funds, and institutional limited partners.
Familiarity with establishing and managing AML/CFT and financial crime programs, encompassing the drafting and upkeep of policies, procedures, and playbooks.
Exposure to practices concerning audit readiness and assurance, involving tasks such as preparing for external AML/FinCrime audits and addressing control deficiencies to enhance operational robustness.
Technologically savvy individual capable of navigating Ethena's product ecosystem encompassing mint/redeem mechanisms, staking functionalities, off-exchange settlements, and adept at integrating compliance tools into operational workflows.
This role offers a salary range of $89,998 to $120,000 annually.
Why Ethena Labs?
Join the dynamic realm of Ethena Labs, a forward-thinking organization dedicated to revolutionizing decentralized finance.
Collaborate with a driven and innovative team that fosters a conducive environment for creativity and teamwork.
Experience a flexible work environment supporting remote work arrangements, with ample opportunities for professional development and learning.
If you share our vision of decoupling the dollar from governmental influence, we are eager to learn more about you!
We await your application and will be in touch following a thorough review.
In the meantime, feel free to explore more about Ethena Labs on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Ethena
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Full time
Remote
Job Description:
Who We Are:
Ethena Labs is a company working on developing an Ethereum-based yield-bearing synthetic dollar. Our team consists of experienced professionals from both traditional finance and crypto engineering backgrounds, with affiliations to respected companies such as Cerberus, Wintermute, Flow Traders, Deribit, Paradigm, Aave, Blockdaemon, and Kaiko. We have secured support from major exchanges and trading entities within the industry.
What We are Doing:
Our main objective is to build derivative infrastructure to enable Ethereum to transition into the Internet Bond. This will be achieved through the creation of delta-neutral derivatives positions, resulting in the establishment of the first crypto-native, yield-bearing synthetic dollar: sUSDe.
We strongly believe that developing a synthetic dollar which does not rely on existing banking infrastructure is the most crucial problem to solve and the greatest opportunity in the crypto field today.
USDe will be the first component of a larger product ecosystem we are constructing. This ecosystem will include fixed and floating rate internet bonds, as well as composable repo leveraged markets.
Join us!
The Opportunity:
As we are in the early stages of our company, we are seeking individuals with a diverse range of expertise to help us evolve, scale, and grow.
Determining the required skill sets and when to bring them on board is a key strategic initiative our leadership is currently working on. This means that multiple positions will be opening up in the coming months.
It would be highly beneficial for us to hear from you sooner rather than later. By doing so, if a suitable opportunity that aligns with your skills and experience becomes available, you will be our first contact for consideration.
Over the next 6 to 12 months, we anticipate the need to build and expand the following teams:
Engineering - Onchain (Solidity), Offchain (React, Python, Web3 tools & libraries), DevOps, Quant.
Product & Design
Marketing & Community
Business Development & Partnerships
Research & Data Science
Operations
Legal
We are particularly interested in individuals with previous experience in DeFi and Web3, especially those involved in prominent projects.
If you support our mission to disentangle the dollar from the State, we look forward to hearing from you!
Please submit your application, and we will be in touch after reviewing it.
Note: Links provided in the original job description have been removed as per request.
Who We Are:
Ethena Labs is a company working on developing an Ethereum-based yield-bearing synthetic dollar. Our team consists of experienced professionals from both traditional finance and crypto engineering backgrounds, with affiliations to respected companies such as Cerberus, Wintermute, Flow Traders, Deribit, Paradigm, Aave, Blockdaemon, and Kaiko. We have secured support from major exchanges and trading entities within the industry.
What We are Doing:
Our main objective is to build derivative infrastructure to enable Ethereum to transition into the Internet Bond. This will be achieved through the creation of delta-neutral derivatives positions, resulting in the establishment of the first crypto-native, yield-bearing synthetic dollar: sUSDe.
We strongly believe that developing a synthetic dollar which does not rely on existing banking infrastructure is the most crucial problem to solve and the greatest opportunity in the crypto field today.
USDe will be the first component of a larger product ecosystem we are constructing. This ecosystem will include fixed and floating rate internet bonds, as well as composable repo leveraged markets.
Join us!
The Opportunity:
As we are in the early stages of our company, we are seeking individuals with a diverse range of expertise to help us evolve, scale, and grow.
Determining the required skill sets and when to bring them on board is a key strategic initiative our leadership is currently working on. This means that multiple positions will be opening up in the coming months.
It would be highly beneficial for us to hear from you sooner rather than later. By doing so, if a suitable opportunity that aligns with your skills and experience becomes available, you will be our first contact for consideration.
Over the next 6 to 12 months, we anticipate the need to build and expand the following teams:
Engineering - Onchain (Solidity), Offchain (React, Python, Web3 tools & libraries), DevOps, Quant.
Product & Design
Marketing & Community
Business Development & Partnerships
Research & Data Science
Operations
Legal
We are particularly interested in individuals with previous experience in DeFi and Web3, especially those involved in prominent projects.
If you support our mission to disentangle the dollar from the State, we look forward to hearing from you!
Please submit your application, and we will be in touch after reviewing it.
Note: Links provided in the original job description have been removed as per request.